David N. Fong

Mr. Fong has over 16 years experience in the commercial real estate industry.  As a former partner or senior attorney in some of the most prestigious law firms in the country, Mr. Fong has regularly represented prominent borrowers and lenders, including REITs, national developers, Wall Street investment funds, commercial banks and other financial institutions in large complex real estate and finance transactions.  Examples of such past clients include: Credit Suisse Securities, JPMorgan Asset Management Inc., Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., General Electric Capital Corporation, Lazard Freres Real Estate Investors LLC, Lone Star Advisors, Deutsche Bank, Nomura Asset Capital Corporation, Salomon Brothers Realty Corp., Arden Realty, the Pebble Beach Company, University of Southern California, Majestic Realty, AOL Time Warner Inc., House of Blues Inc., Southern California Edison, Phillips Petroleum Inc., Somera Realty Value Fund, LP, Center Trust Inc., and the Stahl Real Estate Company.  Over the course of his legal career, Mr. Fong has helped his clients acquire, finance and sell in excess of $7 billion in real estate assets and debt instruments involving virtually every real estate asset class, including, hotels, casinos, ski resorts, residential and commercial condominiums, large apartment projects, office buildings, shopping centers, regional malls, mixed-use projects, vacant land parcels, residential subdivisions, self-storage facilities, mobile home parks, industrial warehouses, marinas, sports arenas, power plants and cogeneration facilities.      

Mr. Fong also has considerable expertise in the workout and purchase and sale of whole loans, participation interests and pools of residential and commercial mortgage loans and securities in the secondary market.  Notable recent transactions include: representing the senior lenders on the $650 million construction financing for the Ritz Carlton and JW Marriott Hotel at LA Live across from Staples Center in Los Angeles, representing a private equity fund in the acquisition of a portfolio of 45 assisted living facilities, and the representation of a foreign bank in the workout of a $120 million dollar loan secured by an office building located in a central business district.